Trustees renew dispatch services contract with sheriff’s department

by Melissa Martin

Feb. 4 township trustees meeting

Hinckley Township Board of Trustees approved two pieces of legislation renewing the 911 dispatch contract between the township and the Medina County Sheriff’s Department for the township’s police and fire departments from 2025-2028.

In accordance with the legislation, which was approved by a 2-0 vote as Trustee Jack Swedyk was not in attendance, the township will pay $64,649 a year for those services. Police Chief David Centner said that amount will be split between the township’s police and fire departments. The police department will pay 60% of the bill at a cost of $34,789, while the fire department will pay the remaining $25,859, Centner said.

Trustees also authorized the township’s service department to move forward with the advertisement of bids for three paving projects, which will be completed this summer. Those projects include:

  • Babcock Road from W. 130th Street to Stoney Hill Road,
  • Marlin Drive from address 2701 to the end of the cul-de-sac,
  • Woodside Drive between Marlin and Babcock Road.

According to the legislation, bids for the projects, estimated at $426,623, are to be opened and awarded March 5.

Trustee Cyntia Engleman also reminded residents that crews are working throughout the township, on Ridge, Center and Bellus roads, to install fiber optic cable that will enable township residents to have access to an alternative high-speed internet service provider.

The lines are being installed by Frontier, which was acquired by Verizon at the end of 2024. Currently, the only internet service provider available to Hinckley residents is Spectrum.

Engleman said Frontier plans to send a representative to a future township trustee meeting to discuss services offered as well as pricing. She also noted that residents likely have received post cards and other advertising materials in the mail in recent weeks.“If you see these trucks parked out along the roads and in the developments, it is because there are no utility poles,” Engleman said. “They will be doing underground boring, so they will be marking utilities because they don’t want to hit any of those utility lines.”